Closure for mail-sacks.



'No. 672,897. Patented Apr. 30, I901.

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CLOSURE FOR MAIL SACKS.

(Application filed Nov. 9, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'JOHN HENRY GILTNER, OF HUTCHISON, KENTUCKY.

CLOSURE FOR MAIL-SACK S.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 672,897, dated April30, 1901. Application filed November 9, 1900. Serial NO. 35.917. (Nomodel.)

, tion adapted to hold the mouth of the bag open and also to hold thecollapsed sides of. the frame securely closed and locked, and which canbe opened and closed with ease and rapidity.

Figure l is a perspective View of the closing-frame extended. Fig. 2 isa plan view of the frame folded with the top or cover thrown back. Fig.3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 with the top or cover in closed position.

The frame consists of six bars of steel, preferably flat, hingedtogether at their ends.

Two of the bars E E are preferably longer than the rest and form thefront and back members of the frame. The remaining four members E E E Eare disposed two at each end and are so hinged together and t0 the frontand rear pieces as to be adapt-ed to fold inwardly at their joints inthe middle of the end. The top or cover 0 is formed of a piece offlanged steel, hinged throughoutits length to the rear side of the frameand provided with a hasp, securely fixed to the flat portion of the topand bent over the flange thereof, so as to be adapted to pass onto astaple D, fixed on the front bar, when the top shall be thrown over intoclosed position. Any look now in use may be employed to secure the haspon the staple. This frame is provided with rivetholes along the loweredge, so that the sack may be secured thereto without difl'iculty, andwhen so attached enables the user to readily open or close the pouchwith minimum wear to the'weaker material and affording great securityand protection to the contents.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An extensible closure for mail-bags comprising in combination a frameformed of six flat metallic bars, one forming the front, one the back,and two at each end so hinged together as to be adapted to foldinwardly, with a covering-flap hinged throughout its length to the rearbar and provided with a depending flange at the front, and a hasprigidly secured to the top and bent over in front of the front and soplaced as to be passed over a staple on the front bar when thecovering-flap is forced down.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN HENRY GILTNER.

Witnesses:

CLIFTON BROOKS WILLMoTT, HATTIE S. TALBOTT.

